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Definition of 'Table'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) table
an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports.

2.  table
such a piece of furniture used for serving food to those seated at it.

3.  table
the food served at a table.

4.  table
a group of people at a table, as for a meal or game.

5.  table
a gaming table.

6.  table
a flat or plane surface; a level area.

7.  table
a tableland or plateau.

8.  table
a concise list or guide:
a table of contents.

9.  table
an arrangement of words, numbers, or signs, usu. in parallel columns, displaying a set of facts or relations in a compact and comprehensive form.

10.  table
a course or band, esp. of masonry, having a distinctive form or position.

11.  table
a distinctively treated surface on a wall.

12.  table
a smooth, flat board or slab on which inscriptions may be put.

13.  table
tables,

14.  table
the tablets on which certain collections of laws were anciently inscribed.

15.  table
the laws themselves.

16.  table
the upper horizontal surface of a faceted gem.

17.  table
a gem with such a surface.

18. (v.t.) table
to lay aside (a bill, motion, etc.) for future discussion, or for an indefinite period of time.

19.  table
to place (a card, money, etc.) on a table.

20.  table
to enter in or form into a table or list.

21. (adj.) table
of, pertaining to, or suitable for a table:
a table lamp.

22.  table
(of a bill, motion, etc.) postponed; shelved.

23.  table
into a drunken stupor.

24.  table
covertly.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE tabule, var. of tabula < L: board (cf. tabular , tablet))

Definition of 'Table'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) table, tabular array
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
"see table 1"

2. (noun) table
a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
"it was a sturdy table"

3. (noun) table
a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
"I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant"

4. (noun) mesa, table
flat tableland with steep edges
"the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"

5. (noun) table
a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
"he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks"

6. (verb) board, table
food or meals in general
"she sets a fine table"; "room and board"

7. (verb) postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
hold back to a later time
"let's postpone the exam"

8. (verb) table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate
arrange or enter in tabular form

Definition of 'Table'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) table
a piece of furniture with a flat top
a family sitting around the dinner table; A small table stood next to the chair.

2. table
a way of showing numbers or words in rows and columns
a table showing changes in temperature over time

3. table
on the table
(of an idea) available to be discussed or considered
All of these options are on the table.

Definition of 'Table'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Table
a smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab

2. (noun) Table
a thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet

3. (noun) Table
a memorandum book

4. (noun) Table
any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced

5. (noun) Table
hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule

6. (noun) Table
a view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents

7. (noun) Table
a list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc

8. (noun) Table
any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc

9. (noun) Table
the arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand

10. (noun) Table
an article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working

11. (noun) Table
hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table

12. (noun) Table
the company assembled round a table

13. (noun) Table
one of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium

14. (noun) Table
a stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table

15. (noun) Table
the board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played

16. (noun) Table
one of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table

17. (noun) Table
the games of backgammon and of draughts

18. (noun) Table
a circular plate of crown glass

19. (noun) Table
the upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles

20. (noun) Table
a plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane

21. (noun) Table
the part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened

22. (verb) Table
to form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines

23. (verb) Table
to delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture

24. (verb) Table
to supply with food; to feed

25. (verb) Table
to insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf

26. (verb) Table
to lay or place on a table, as money

27. (verb) Table
in parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely

28. (verb) Table
to enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one

29. (verb) Table
to make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope

30. (verb) Table
to live at the table of another; to board; to eat

Translation of 'Table'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of furniture consisting of a flat, horizontal surface on legs used eg to put food on at meals, or for some games Put all the plates on the table.
Afrikaans: tafel	Arabic: طاوِلَه	Bulgarian: маса
Brazilian: mesa	Czech: stůl	German: der Tisch
Danish: bord	Greek: τραπέζι	Spanish: mesa
Estonian: laud	Farsi: میز	Finnish: pöytä
French: table	Hebrew: שוּלחָן	Hindi: मेज
Croatian: stol; igraći stol (stolni	Hungarian: asztal	Indonesian: meja
Icelandic: borð	Italian: tavolo	Japanese: テーブル
Korean: 탁자	Lithuanian: stalas	Latvian: galds
Malay: meja	Dutch: tafel	Norwegian: bord
Polish: stół	Persian: میز	Pashto: مېز،تخته،دړه، دمېز دشاوخو
Portuguese: mesa	Romanian: oamenii care stau la masă	Russian: стол
Slovak: stôl	Slovenian: miza	Serbian: sto
Swedish: bord	Thai: โต๊ะ	Turkish: masa
Taiwanese: 桌子，臺子	Ukrainian: стіл	Urdu: ٹيبل، ميز
Vietnamese: cái bàn	Chinese: 桌子，台子
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